When a study released this fall found that more than 50% of staff fail Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) assessments, two-thirds witness internal breaches, and more than 80% ...

In a busy medical office, privacy risks can happen in a flash. A patient form left on the front desk. A billing email sent to the wrong address. A casual ...

Basic HIPAA training and adhering to their hospital’s own privacy compliance guidelines may not be enough to ensure nurses are consistently compliant, suggests a Dec. 27 HIPAA Journal report. Ongoing ...

The use of PHI in training may fall into the category of healthcare operations as long as such use complies with the Privacy Rule. Q: Are we allowed to use case ...

The United States' Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulates how organizations like hospitals and insurers must control and manage protected health information (PHI). HIPAA ...

Traliant said this month it has created HIPAA training for healthcare organizations and their business associates via an online course. The training is available in two versions: HIPAA for Covered ...

Better hospital handoffs decrease medical errors Physician organizations need to do a better job training staff in safeguarding protected health information and complying with HIPAA in other ways.

Annual or on-hire training is not the place to stop; to be effective, training needs to be ongoing. A version of this article was first published March 17, 2021, by HCPro's Revenue Cycle Advisor, a ...

Health Care Compliance Strategies Inc. (HCCS), Jericho, N.Y., is now offering three versions of an ongoing education program to “quickly and effectively train a large staff on complying with HIPAA ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut implemented an e-learning solution to deliver HIPAA general privacy training to as many as 6,000 employees. Enacted in 1996, HIPAA -- the Health Insurance Portability ...

When it comes to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations (“HIPAA”), is your house in order? Has someone recently looked ...

To protect patients seeking addiction treatment, the federal government passed strict regulations limiting the disclosure of substance abuse patient records. Substance abuse treatment programs must ...